Quick Pick: March 11, 2016

Several of us here at Book Riot are big fans of this audacious debut novel. We love We Love You, Charlie Freeman! The book centers around the Freeman family, who have been chosen to participate in a program at the Toneybee institute where they will live with a chimpanzee, Charlie, and teach him sign language. The multiple narratives shift between family members, as well as a look at the founding of the not entirely ethical institute’s founding. Greenidge has created a masterful work using a fictional test study about language to capture what gets lost in translation when discussing race, family, and sexuality in America today.